AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XI.—GIRAULT. 265° 
1. AXANTHOSOMA NIGRA Girault. Female. Genotype. 
Length, 4.78 mm. 
Shining black, the wings hyaline, the head and thorax more or less opaque. Legs 
yellow-brown, the coxe mostly, the posterior femora and their tibiz below the knees, black; 
also the antenne. Abdomen except at base above densely microscopically scaly, the thorax 
more roughly so. Propodeum rugose and with a large median, triangular excavation for its 
whole length. Distal funicle joint oval. Club 2-jointed, the distal or second suture really 
non-existent. Propodeum with a distinct median channel whose margins are not distinetly 
earinated. Abdomen subsessile. 
Tfabitat: Kuranda (type) and Gordonvale, Queensland. 
Type: No. 1y 2264, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag and a slide 
bearing the antenne and legs. 
2. AXANTHOSOMA IO new species. Female. 
Length, 3.50 mm. 
Like nigra but the legs black except knees, tips of tibie and the tarsi. Also shorter and 
more robust, the produced part of the abdomen shorter than the head and thorax combined. . 
Abdomen a little reddish at sides near base. Sides of thorax uniformly scaly. Median 
channel of propodeum narrower. 
Habitat: Magnetic Island (Townsville), Queensland. Forest, January. 
Type: No. Hy 3265, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag and a slide 
bearing the head and hind legs. 
EXANTHOSOMA new genus. 
Female :—Like Xanthosoma Ashmead but the antenne only 9=jointed, the club solid. 
Fifth abdominal segment much shorter than wide yet longest, twice longer than 4 which is much 
shorter than segment 2. Postmarginal vein a little longer than the stigmal. Propodeum 
with a narrow median channel. Hind tibie with two spurs. 
1. EXANTHOSOMA FUNERALIS new species. 
Female :—Length, 2.75 mm. 
Black, the wings hyaline; trochanters, knees, distal third of cephalic femora, all 
tibiae except the subfuscous middle and the tarsi, reddish brown. Scape yellowish brown, the 
anteune otherwise black; ring-joint longer than wide, narrow, the first funicle joint somewhat 
less than half the length of the scape (excluding bulla), the distal funicle joint globular, 
about as long as the pedicel. Mandibles irregular. Thorax densely reticulated, the propodeum 
rugulose, the median channel a single line of fovere and its margins carinated. Scutum and 
scutellum with scattered obscure punctures. 
rom one female captured by sweeping jungle along a forest streamlet, July 31, 1913. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3266, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and 
a hind leg on a slide. 
The abdomen has segments 4, 5 and 6 at about cephalic half dorsad, scaly reticulate; 
the petiole is subobsolete. As seen from above the scutellum is just about as long as the 
propodeum. | 
GENuS EURYTOMOCHARIS Ashmead. 
1. EURYTOMOCHARIS VIRGINICA new species. Female. 
Length, 2.80 mm. 
Red, the wings slightly stained throughout. Ocellar area, occiput, segments 2-4 of 
abdomen at caudal margins, cephalic margin, median channel and apex of propodeum, petiole 
